essay
Customary law in Burma
Southeast Asia in the coming world • Baltimore • Published In 1953 • Pages: 203-216
By: Htin Aung, U..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a general discussion of the bases, sources and social foundations of the several divisions of Burmese law and jurisprudence. There is some treatment of the acculturation of Burmese law under the British regime. The author is a professor of ethnology and a lawyer.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Legal norms
- Chief executive
- Property offenses
- Initiation of judicial proceedings
- Sanctions
- Judicial authority
- Legal and judicial personnel
- Mythology
- Theological systems
- Classes
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Burmans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- F. K. Lehman ; 1955 ; Teferi A. Adem; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- none
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Burma
- NotesAdditional notes
- Maung Htin Aung
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 53006492
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Burmese